dratomic
What's the scoop, Scoop?
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2003
- Messages
- 48
I didn't think this one was going to happen. I'm going to The World Jan 12-22nd. This is going to be a solo trip and because of that resort hopping was not an issue.
I've wanted to stay at the Poly since they built it but have never had the chance so I started there and got a few days foothold. Other days were spread between The Boardwalk and Bay Lake Towers with a Theme Park View.
At one point I had 5 different ressies split between 3 hotels. Anyways, I finally got it down to 3 nights Poly LV, one night BLT TPV, 2 more Poly LV, then 4 final nights Poly Standard.
I had a waitlist to replace the BLT night in the middle for both Poly Lake, and Poly Standard. I woke up this morning to find that the Poly Lake View came through! Yay! So now I'm at the Poly for the entire stay. Half Lake View and half Standard.
The cool part is that even with the seperate patchwork reservations at the same hotel Disney will treat them as a single stay as long as they are the in the same category.
While having it all Lake View would be cool I like it split this way so I can do the DxDP for half of the trip and wing it for the rest. At one point I would have ended up with 4 refillable mugs for this one stay. The downside was (especially with switching hotels) I had to use a spreadsheet to plan my dining to make sure I'd use all my points. Disney has confirmed with this waitlist coming through that now my Dining Plan is in one block now so that gives me a little freedom to shuffle things around a bit more if needed.
TL/DR -- don't give up on your wait list. I had a Polynesian Lake View in January come through for me!
I've wanted to stay at the Poly since they built it but have never had the chance so I started there and got a few days foothold. Other days were spread between The Boardwalk and Bay Lake Towers with a Theme Park View.
At one point I had 5 different ressies split between 3 hotels. Anyways, I finally got it down to 3 nights Poly LV, one night BLT TPV, 2 more Poly LV, then 4 final nights Poly Standard.
I had a waitlist to replace the BLT night in the middle for both Poly Lake, and Poly Standard. I woke up this morning to find that the Poly Lake View came through! Yay! So now I'm at the Poly for the entire stay. Half Lake View and half Standard.
The cool part is that even with the seperate patchwork reservations at the same hotel Disney will treat them as a single stay as long as they are the in the same category.
While having it all Lake View would be cool I like it split this way so I can do the DxDP for half of the trip and wing it for the rest. At one point I would have ended up with 4 refillable mugs for this one stay. The downside was (especially with switching hotels) I had to use a spreadsheet to plan my dining to make sure I'd use all my points. Disney has confirmed with this waitlist coming through that now my Dining Plan is in one block now so that gives me a little freedom to shuffle things around a bit more if needed.
TL/DR -- don't give up on your wait list. I had a Polynesian Lake View in January come through for me!
